People, who practise meditation, sacrifice a lot of time for it (half an hour a day, an hour a day). What is the reason for such activity? Why people meditate? Is it worthwhile?
In my opinion there are two ways to approach the meditation. Those ways are differentiated by the scale of people requirements concerning expected results of such practise.
Recreation
People often meditate (or practise Yoga, Tai-Chi, e.g.) because they want to:
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relax both their mind and their body,
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have good health,
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spend time in silence and peace,
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increase a level of IQ,
In my opinion such effects of meditation are only incidental to the main result. We must remember that practise of meditation can serve the much more ambitious purpose.
Way of Life!
In fact all religions broach the subject of the ‘enlightening’. It is the main purpose of man life – return to spiritual form, to the source of existence, … . Accomplishment of such state of mind seems to be very difficult and distant. Some of the philosophers say about renunciation of physical goods and pleasure in the name of becoming enlightened. A lot of people concentrate on acquiring such goods, so ‘enforced’ renunciation of its possession in the name of indefinite ‘enlightening’ is in their opinion uneconomic.
The meditation is a way for people who are not satisfied by possessing of physical goods, privileges, fame, etc. We can understand more, our knowledge of ourselves and the world around us is increasing through meditation. Process of developing this ‘knowledge’ is adjusted to mental and physical capabilities. By the way we learn to use intuition and others talents.
Changes gradually take place. Its are imperceptible especially at the beginning of practise of meditation, but after a some period positive results of meditation can be seen in all aspects of our life. We improve the world around us through improving ourselves!
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